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San Francisco State University
Cinema B.A.

The Cinema Department was founded amid the political activism and artistic experimentation of the 1960s. Today, as it was then, the department is committed to a curriculum that recognizes cinema as an independent, powerful, and unique medium of expression. Cinema programs combine theory and practice; students are encouraged to engage in scholarship and to pursue all forms of cinema production. The goal of undergraduate instruction in cinema is to foster creative, critical, and independent endeavor as part of a liberal arts education. Students in the B.A. program complete core courses, including film history and critical studies, before continuing in advanced theory/criticism, screenwriting and production, or animation. Students are encouraged to combine courses from several areas in their major program. All areas lead to a B.A. in Cinema.

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